Nevada County picayune., 1887-07-13

l WIS SuDjeCt to auNlce anu | ac- cepted her counsel. Butt she said, cheer up. I can get you a position. am sure of that, if you want it.
 "Of course 1 wanted it. So she wrote a note to one of the bankers of the city, inclosed a letter of in. trOduction and sent me out again, not forgetting to add the usual best wishes for success.
 "I have often thought of it! How l put my hand OF the railing and stepped into that bank, that after. noon! Confidence lifting my feet as on a carpet of down. Imagina tion measuring the size of the bank would be proprietor of in a few years!
 II handed my letter to a clerk, and he delivered it to some one be. hind desk. Then he took his hat and went out and 1 stood there and waited an hour at least. Finally gray haired old gentle. man came out and said:
 You are the young man who brought this letter in believe.'
 "Yes, sir
 "Ahem. Yes; well please say to Mrs Green that l am very sorry not to be able to do her the favor but we have no vacancies at pres. ent.'
 'I made no reply. Only stood and looked at him.
 "'Ioung man. he said at last. take my advice and never attempt to learn banking. You could hope for nothing better than the posi-. ton of book keeper for years, if ever; and it's nothing but a dogs life, Besides the business is crowd. ed, sir. There are more banks than there are people to support them. Every paper you pick mp is full of bank failures.
 "And he bowed me out.
 .I went back to Mrs Green and told her the result. 'Well,' she said, MT Switzer ought to know. He has been in the business thirty years. How would you like to be a druggist.
 "I told her that l would like anything that was q paying busi- ness. She had a friend who was a druggist and she was positive he wanted a clerk.
 "SO she wrote another note and letter of introduction and sent me to her druggist friend.
 II walked slower this time and it was just as well. The position had been filled before l got there.
 "But just as I turned to leave the store, the proprietor, who was quite an old man, stopped me and said:
 Young man, don't spend an hour trying to be druggist. l have been in the business forty years and l know what l am talk ing about. You've got to work like a slave, night and Sundays not excepted and probably in the end get sued for damages on ac, count of some careless prescrip- ton clerk. Besides, the business is overdone already. You will find a drug store sprineing up on every corner. Take my word for it, there is no money in drugs
 That night sat in my room try in to decide which way to turn next, when Charlie Griffin, the fellow who roomed next to me, dropped in.
 "'Got the blues," he asked. 
 "Nes, l have l answered with a great deep sigh. I am perfectly sick of the whole of it,
 70, pshaw,' he said in cheer ful tone that brightened me little there are plenty of chances. Ton will get in somewhere. l believe the book business would just suit you. Why don't you try that!
 "I hadn't thought of it, l re-
 "'Well. that will be just the thing for you,' he said with great confidence. T can help yon on that too! 1 am acquainted with man in the book business and he wants a partner There is your chance. will go down with you in the morning and give you an in troduction'
 "rhen he rattled on for half an hour about subscription books and all other kinds oi books. The for